Tag: Animal behavior
Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal
Logan S. James, The University of Texas at Austin; Rachel Page, Smithsonian Institution, and Ximena Bernal, Purdue University
It...
Training an animal? An ethicist explains how and why your dog...
Jon Garthoff, University of Tennessee
People talk to their pets every day: offering praise when they’re good, reassurance when...
The surprising reason why insects circle lights at night: They lose...
Samuel Fabian, Imperial College London; Jamie Theobald, Florida International University, and Yash Sondhi, University of Florida
It’s an observation...
Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands...
Jonathan Losos, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
A few years ago, I had the opportunity...
Thriving in the face of adversity: Resilient gorillas reveal clues about...
Stacy Rosenbaum, University of Michigan and Robin Morrison, University of Exeter
In 1974, an infant mountain gorilla was born...
Vagrant, machine or pioneer? How we think about a roving eagle...
Adriana Craciun, Boston University
The Steller’s sea eagle is one of the largest and most aggressive raptors in the...
Smell is the crucial sense that holds ant society together, helping...
Laurence Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University and Stephen Ferguson, Vanderbilt University
Ants can be found in nearly every location on Earth,...
Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language – bees learn and...
James C. Nieh, University of California, San Diego
The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a...
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Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
